Senior People and Culture Business Partner

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• Fixed term up to February 2025 | Full-Time at 1.0FTE 

• Higher Education Officer Level 8 | $106,842-$118,281 p.a. plus 17% Super.

• Location: Bedford Park / Kaurna Country

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About People and Culture

People and Culture provide strategic leadership and operational advice to the University, focusing on building a positive work environment that reflects our values. Through the delivery of high-quality human resource policies, procedures, and systems, we provide advice and support to staff and managers on pay, leave, benefits, professional development, equity, diversity, recruitment and health and safety.

  
About the Role 

We have an exciting opening within our People and Culture team as the Senior People and Culture Business Partner. As the successful candidate, you will provide a high-level strategic People and Culture (P&C) business partnering service to senior management, supervisors, and staff in an allocated University College and/or Portfolios, on a broad range of issues.

Some of the key responsibilities of the position are:

• Working in partnership with senior University managers in the allocated College/Portfolios to provide strategic advice and consultancy services on all aspects of P&C and industrial relations matters

• Contributing to the University’s business and workforce planning initiatives by providing strategic advice in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of significant change management initiatives such as formal reviews and restructuring within the allocated College/Portfolios

• Building effective relationships across the allocated College/Portfolios and attending forums, meetings, and committees where necessary in order to provide strategic P&C advice.

• Working with college/portfolio leadership to ensure that appropriate Performance Review and Development processes are in place for all staff.

• Undertaking high-level/complex case management in accordance with University policies and legislative requirements in order to achieve outcomes that are both industrially sound and appropriate

About You 

As the successful candidate, you can build trusting and effective relationships with your colleagues as well as the leadership team across the organisation. You thrive on collaboration; you are influential and have high-level negotiating skills. You have excellent time management skills and can prioritize tasks in a busy work environment. You are passionate about providing solutions to stakeholders and have strong communication skills.

Some of the key position capabilities of the role include:

• Extensive professional knowledge/experience of contemporary HR management policies and practices including change management; industrial agreements e.g., awards and enterprise agreements; legislative requirements as applicable to the workplace; and HR/ER case management.

• Demonstrated ability to work at a strategic level in partnership with senior managers including the ability to work with a high level of initiative and decision-making.

• Demonstrated and significant experience in the independent and effective management of complex

• industrial matters including conflict resolution, discipline and/or performance management.

• Demonstrated high level problem solving, negotiation and conflict resolution skills.

• Demonstrated experience leading and advising on organisational change processes.

Life at Flinders 

We're transforming and investing in people and facilities to create contemporary, stimulating, and satisfying learning and work environments that reflect our core values of excellence, innovation, courage, and integrity. Flinders is refocusing its strategic priorities with the aim of elevating its performance to be a top ten Australian university, and amongst the top 1% in the world. 

Reaching beyond the limits of buildings, borders, and backgrounds, ours is an inclusive culture that believes absolutely in equality and opportunity for all. We don't just accommodate differences; we embrace and celebrate them. So, why work at Flinders?  

• 17% Superannuation + salary packaging options 

• Flexible working arrangements 

• Wide range of professional development activities and services 

• We embrace diversity and promote equity and inclusion for all students and staff 

• Vibrant campus life and amenities including on campus health care services , gym  and childcare centre (Bedford Park, South Australia). 

Our Commitment to Reconciliation and Indigenous Employment 

Flinders University is proud to be an organisation that is committed to our Reconciliation Action Plan and Indigenous Workforce Strategy. Our vision is to be a preferred employer for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.  We are committed to progressing Indigenous advancement in education, research, employment, and wellbeing, and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for all Flinders vacancies. 

Prescribed Conditions for Employment

• A valid National Police Certificate which is satisfactory to the University will also be required before the successful applicant can commence in this position. 

• Please note that you may be required to provide evidence that you are up to date with COVID-19 vaccinations, in line with the Flinders University COVID-19 Vaccination Policy   

How to Apply and Information 

• In addition to uploading your CV, please submit a Cover Letter, outlining your suitability for the role.

• For more information regarding this position, please contact Mark Schultz on (08) 8201 2300.

• Please see here for our Reconciliation Action Plan   

• Please see here for our Indigenous Workforce Strategy   

Please note, late applications and applications sent via agencies will not be accepted. 

Certification

Applications to be submitted before 10.00pm:

21 Jan 2024

At Flinders we embrace and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, ethnicities, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities.

Flinders. Fearless.